Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

I don't believe in magic.'The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will when you see her.

Go Big or Go Home

No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

Gossip is the worst form of judging.